Nonrefillable bottle



V. MILLITY.

NONREFILLABLE BOTTLE.

APPLICATION FILED ocT 25,1920.

1,408,376. Patented Feb. 28, 1922 UNITED STATES PATiE-NT OFFICE.

VLADA MILLITY, or nn rnorr, Mini-Imam.

nonnnrnmanrn nor'rrn.

Application file i October 535, 1920. Serial No. 119,455.

To all whom it mag] concern Be it known that I, VLADA MILLiTY, a citizen of Jugo-Slavia, residing .at'Detroit. in the county of'VVayne and State o' f'Miehigan, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Nonrefillable Bottles, of which the following is a specification, referencebeing had thereinto the accompanying drawings.

lslyinvention aims to provide a novel closure member for receptacles, and more particularly bottles containing medicine or bevwages 1t is a well known factthat bottles which once contained a popular brand of beverage ora particular kind of medicine are often refilled with an inferior beverage or medicine, and. to eliminate this nefarious practice I havedevised a closure member which at alltimes closes a bottle, but provision is madefor opening theclosure member and also for rendering-the closure member inoperative, whereby an empty bottle may befpositively closed against -surreptitious filling. By such a closuremember it will be impossible to use bottles for other purposes which once containedpoison mat ter. p

My invention further aims to provide a bottle closure which may be built into a bottle neck and obviate the necessity of provid-' ing a cork or separate closure.

My invention still further aims to accomplish the above results by a construction that will be hereinafter described and then claimed, and reference will nowbe had to the clrawing,\vl1erein-- Figure 1 is a vertical sectional view of. a. portion of a bottle neck, showing the closure member in side elevation and partly in section with the member in a closed position Fig. 2 is a vertical transverse sectional view of the bottle neck showing the closure member partly in elevation and an open position;

Fig. 8 is a plan of the bottle neck,' partly in horizontal section and showing a portion of the closure member in plan;

Fig. 4 is a side elevation of the bottle neck, partly in section on the line Iva-IV of, Fig. 2,and i Fig. 5 is a perspective view of a detached stationary ring member which providesa knife or severing device.

In the drawing, the reference numeral 1 denotes a bottle neck which is preferably molded or made inhalves suitably connected together, and the bottle neckhas a globular or oblate spheroidical shaped head 2 provided with a discharge opening 3 having for its axis the bottle neck 1.

Diametrically opposed inner walls of the head 2 are provided with recesses 4 and 5, the latter being comparativelylarge with a tangentially disposed opening 6 communieating therewith. p

In the head 2 is an oscillatory closure member? provided withan opening 8 adapted to establish communication between the discharge opening 3 and the bottle neck 1, and the opening-8 is adapted tohave its ends closed by opposed walls of the head 2, as shown in Fig. 1. Opposite walls of the -lo sure member 7 are provided-with trunnion or pivot members 9 and 10 disposed axially I of therecesses 4t and 5 and loosely engagingin the inner walls of said recesses so as to support.the closure member 7 foran oscillatory movement within the headz3. Encircling the trunnion. or pivot member 9 is a coiled spring- 11, having one end thereofanchored relative to the closure member 7 and the opposite end thereof anchored in the wall of the recess 4 so that the retractile force of the springmay retain the closure member 7 in a closed position with the axis of the opening 8 at a right angle to the axis of the opening; 8 and the bottle neckl. Projecting from the vall of the recess 5, adjacentits outer edges. are positioning lugs and fitting over these lugs and held against rotation is a peripheral flange 13 of a ring member 14:, the flange thereof being, notched, as at 15 to receive the lugslQ. The ringmember is best shown in Fig. 5 and is provided with opening-s16; 17 and 18, with the opening 17 communicating with aslot 19 having its walls taperinginwardly so as topr'ovide a knife or severing; instrumentality 20, the purpose of which will practically appear. I

That wall of the closure member 7, opposite the trunnion. or pivot member 9, is, formed with a cylindrical boss or integral pulley 21, having'a peripheral groove and-a transverse opening 22. Suitably anchored in the opening 2 1, for instance asat 23, is a flexible member22 which has its ends extending out of the opening 24, and with the boss or pulley 21 journaled in the stationary ring member 14:, there is sufficient clearance between the boss and the ring member for the passage of the flexible member about the boss through openings of the ring member 14. Referring to Fig. 1,, one end of the flexible member extends under the boss 21 and outwardly through the opening 16 of the ring member 14E and through the opening 6. This end of the flexible member is designated 25 and may be conveniently termed the short end of the flexible member.

The opposite end of, the flexible member 22 extends over the boss 21 through the opening 18 of the ring member l t on to the periphery of said ring member. The flexible member then enters the slot 19 or the opening 17 to bear on the boss 21, and then the end of the flexible member extends through the opening 16 and passes through the opening 6 to provide a long end designated 26. The manner in which the flexible member is trained about the boss 21*permits of either end of the flexible member being pulled upon to partially rotate the closure member 7, and to limit the movement of the closure member it has a stop pin 27, best shown in Fig. 3, which extends into a segment shaped recess 28 communicating with the recess 5, and it is the end walls of the recess 28 which afford abutments for the stop 27, so that the closure member 7 can be turned fully a quarter of a revolution either to open or close said member.

At the juncture of the head 2 with the bottle neck 1 there is an internal flange 29. affording a seat for a gasket, washer 0r packing ring 30 which is made of compressible material and the gasket is adapted to be compressed when the closure member 7 is turned to a closed position, as shown in Fig. 1. This may be accomplished in two ways. First, the wall of the closure member 7 may be slightly enlarged so asto have the action of a cam when the closure member is turned, and second, the trunnions or pivot members 9 and 10 may be placed slightly ofli' center so that the closure member 7, when turning, will have somewhat of an eccentric action within the head 2 and thus cause the gasketto be compressed and seal the connection between the bottle neck and the closure memher, when said closure member is in a closed position.

Considering the operation or utilityof the closure member, I will assume that the manu member 7 turned aquarter of a revolution,

which places the opening 8 of the closure member in registration with the opening 3 of the head 2. In so turning the closure member the spring 11 is placed under additional tension so that upon the short end 25 of the flexible member 22 being released the 7 spring willrestore the closure member to a closed position. However, the short end of the flexible member is held while the bottle is filled and then the short end 25 is cut off close to the opening 6, so that when the 010- sure member 7 automatically turns to a closed position the short end of the flexible member is drawn into the head 2 and cannot again be manipulated. This still leaves the long end 26 of the flexible member protrud ing from the opening 6 and in such condition the bottle is handed to the consumer-of the contents of the bottle. b

To obtain the contents of the bottlethe long end 26 of the flexible member is pulled upon and the closure member 7 again placed in an open position. .lVith the flexible member 22 in the form of a cord, string or some material capable of being severed it is now possible for the. flexible member to be severed by the knife 20 when the long end 26 of the flexible member is released. Before releasing the long end of the flexible member the bottle is empty and then when the long end 26 is released the turning closure mem her 7 pulls upon the flexible member and in sov doing drags said member in the slot 19 and into the narrow or knifeend thereof. Bearing in mind that the member 14 is stationary and the boss 21 movable therein, it

is obvious that the flexible member wedg'ing in the slot 19 will be cut by the knife 20.. The long end 26 of theflexible member will be released and may be pulled from the openclosure member and adapted to be pulled upon to open said closure member and then *cut oil", another flexible member attached to said closure member and adapted to be pulled upon to open saidclosure member, and

means carried by said bottle neck adapted to automatically cut the last mentioned flexible member when the closure member assumes a normally closed position.

2. The combination set forth in claim 1,

wherein said bottle neck has a globular head with said closure member trunnioned therein.

3. The combination of a bottleneck, a 1'0- member assumes a normally closed position. In testlmony whereof I afllx my slgnature m presence of two wltnesses.

VLADA MILLITY.

fitnesses:

ERNEST RESIN,

ARTHUR MINNICK. 

